Officers Show More Bias in Citations Unrelated to Public Safety

Catalyst California calculations based on City of Fresno’s Police Stop Data (2022), Catalyst California, 2024. Analysis for all officer-initiated traffic stops made by officers in 2022 that resulted in a citation for infraction. Less than 5 people Fresno PD perceived as NHPI or AIAN were stopped in an officer-initiated traffic stop that resulted in a citation for infraction in 2022. For data masking purposes the data for these groups is suppressed from this chart.
Race/ethnicity: AIAN=American Indian or Alaska Native, NHPI=Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, SWANA/SA=Southwest Asian (Middle Eastern) or North African, or South Asian. .